Milton Village

For their May meeting Martyn Rayner has kindly invited the club to his new studio “The Works” in St Ives. This will be on Wednesday (20/5) starting at 7:30pm. Martyn will hopefully be able to organise a model and you’ll have the chance to use his range of lights and backgrounds – so bring your […]

Can you tell your ash from your walnut, or your alder from your elder? If not then why not go on a walk for beginners at Milton Country Park on Sunday 24th May. The walk will last for about one and a half hours looking at different trees and their leaves and easy ways to […]

On Monday night Jane Coston stood down after five years as chairman of Milton Parish Council. In her place your parish council’s AGM elected Rob Chapman as chairman for 2009-10 and Mark Ellwood was elected vice-chairman. Rob Chapman Mark Ellwood

This Monday (11/5) is the parish council AGM (as apposed to the Annual Parish Meeting, which we’ve already had). The AGM is where the council elects a chair and vice-chair for the next year and decide which councillors are going to serve on which committee. There is a full agenda of other business too which […]

This year’s exciting recycling open day will be held at Donarbon’s waste management park, Waterbeach on Saturday (6/6) from 10am to 4pm. This is where our waste goes for re-cycling. The day will provide everyone with the opportunity to find out more about waste and recycling in Cambridgeshire including: The new Mechanical Biological Treatment (MBT) […]

Milton Surgery has asked me to publicise the leaflets below from the Health Protection Agency. The main advice is that if patients have been to an affected area and get flu symptoms (fever over 38°C, cough, sore throat, runny nose) they should not come to the surgery but should ring the surgery or NHS direct […]

Milton News now has its own diary courtesy of Google Calendar. All events posted here from April 2009 onwards which are dated appear in the diary, including future events which are currently “embargoed” so haven’t appeared in the news feed. You can find the diary at http://www.milton.org.uk/diary.html If you use Google Calendar yourself you may […]

More Speedwatch training is being held, this time in Landbeach, at 10am on Saturday 9th May. If you are interested then please contact Michael Williamson who is collecting names and liaising with the police. For those who have not come across Speedwatch before, it is a community initiative backed by the police to record vehicles […]

On 4th June we are voting in both the European Parliament elections and for one county councillor to be elected for the Waterbeach Electoral Division (which includes Milton). Applications to be included on the register of electors or for postal or proxy votes should be sent to the Electoral Registration Officer, South Cambridgeshire Hall, Cambourne […]

In order to improve the delivery of news via Twitter “tweets” I have added an option to let me override the default tweet, which is the news article headline. So this article for example has a headline of “Improving News on Twitter” but if you’re following MiltonNews on Twitter the tweet you should get will […]